Many thanks for the information from all who replied. From the debate that followed, obviously this is an area which is of interest to many parties! Following Mark Post's advice and encouragement our Linux techies managed to find the Java download on the RedHat site. Currently we are evaluating RedHat for z/Linux, since our current Intel web services are based on RedHat, and we are just coming to the end of a 30 day trial. Guess we should give SuSe a go!
Best regards, John John Cousins Senior IT Officer Central Support Services ICT Division Bristol City Council Romney House Romney Avenue PO Box 1380 Bristol BS99 3HB Tel : 0117 922 4705 Fax: 0117 922 3983 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14/03/2008 16:00 >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:48 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Cousins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > I currently have a couple of virtual RedHat 5 zLinux virtual machines set > up, and need to install Java. > Our Linux techs say we must have Sun Java, the developers want Java > 1.5.0_05-b05, but my trawl of the web suggests that Sun Java is not > available in z/Linux! Not surprisingly, Sun Microsystems thinks that Linux on IBM mainframes is a Bad Idea [tm], largely I suspect because it cuts into their hardware sales. As a result, you won't be finding a Sun Java for Linux on System z. (It will be interesting if they decide to provide one for OpenSolaris on System z at some point.) > Looks like I can download Java from IBM: > http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux/download.html I wouldn't think you should have to. Red Hat ships the IBM Java for their other platforms. For RHEL v5 it's in the "Supplementary" channel. I would imagine you'll find it there for s390x as well. You probably don't want to get into the business of providing your own Java support. That's theoretically why you're paying Red Hat (or IBM) a good sum of money. Downloading stuff and installing it will mean they won't support any problems with that package. > but will this be good enough for our picky developers? Only they can answer that question. As James pointed out, it passes all of the tests required to be branded Java. I have seen at least one problem where the developers were claiming that IBM's JDK behaved somewhat differently than Sun's did. I don't know if it's been resolved yet or not. But, that's the first I've heard of anything like that since early 2000, when I started caring about such things. I expect your developers will whine loudly, but still be able to do their jobs. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ______________________________________________________________________ 'Do it online' with our growing range of online services - http://www.bristol.gov.uk/services Sign-up for our email bulletin giving news, have-your-say and event information at: http://www.bristol.gov.uk/newsdirect Watch webcasts of Council meetings at http://www.bristol.gov.uk/webcast ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
